London’s leftist mayor, Sadiq Khan, will be honoured with a knighthood despite his limited accomplishments and failure to tackle crime.
It will be ‘Sir Sadiq’ for the left-wing mayor after he was included in Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s 2024 New Year Honours list, the first batch of people who will be honoured as such by the recently installed leader.
Commenting on his elevation, Khan said that he was “truly humbled to have received a knighthood in the King’s New Year’s Honours.”
“I couldn’t have dreamed when growing up on a council estate in south London that I’d one day be Mayor of London. It’s the honour of my life to serve the city I love,” he added.
Khan, who took over from Boris Johnson as the Mayor of London in 2016, is now the longest-serving mayor since the position was created in 2000. He has frequently been criticised for focussing…
